Re: a correction Congress asks phone companies: Why are text prices rising?

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Earle Jones <earle.jones () comcast net>
Date: September 11, 2008 12:18:13 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Cc: "ip" <ip () v2 listbox com>
Subject: Re: [IP] Re:   Congress asks phone companies: Why are text  
prices rising?

Dave:  A correction for IP.

From:  http://www.askoxford.com/worldofwords/quotations/quotefrom/mallory/

"In March 1923, in an interview with The New York Times, the British  
mountaineer George Leigh Mallory was asked why he wanted to climb  
Mount Everest, and replied, 'Because it's there'. The answer became  
famous, not least because Mallory himself was lost on Everest in the  
following year. It was sometimes suggested that he and his fellow- 
climber Andrew Irvine, who were last seen 'going strong for the  
summit', might in fact have reached it before their deaths, but there  
was no proof."

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On Sep 11, 2008, at 7:20 AM, David Farber wrote:

> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: Rahul Tongia <tongia () cmu edu>
> Date: September 11, 2008 9:38:03 AM EDT
> To: dave () farber net
> Subject: Re: [IP] Congress asks phone companies: Why are text prices  
> rising?
>
> Dave,
>
> My general reaction to why companies do this is what is called the  
> Rod Stewart philosophy of why:
> Why do rock stars marry supermodels?:
> "Because we can"
>
> Unlike Edmund Hillary who said "Because it's there" (why climb Mt.  
> Everest), here companies are manufacturing opportunities.  As  
> Odlyzko and others have pointed out, per bit, the profit margin is  
> mind-boggling for text messages.  And I still gosh-darn pay for  
> incoming (unlike the rest of the world).
>
> Rahul






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